Browsing SCA Faculty Publications by Title
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Factors associated with college students' responses to rape-disclosure scenarios: influence of gender, rape characteristics, and opinions about health professionals
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis LTD, 2017)Few studies examine the role of friends in victims' decisions to seek help from health professionals. This study used a sample of college students (N = 637) to examine the factors that may influence whether students would ... -
Forensic sciences and medicine. The clinical or living aspects
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1990-12)This presentation of information regarding the application of the forensic sciences and medicine to the evaluation of living persons and its related problems is based on the case experience of a private practitioner of ... -
The gendered effects of a graduated sanctions model on probation outcomes in Kansas
(SAGE Journals, 2022-02-27)Although originally perceived as an evidence-based program, there has been a continual debate on the true effectiveness of the graduated sanctions model for probation. Nonetheless, what is missing in the literature is an ... -
The identification of Josef Mengele. A triumph of international cooperation
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1985-09)In recent weeks, world attention has been focused on the identification of skeletal remains suspected of being those of the most widely sought Nazi war criminal still at large--Josef Mengele. Several important turns in the ... -
Insecurity in the ivory tower: Understanding and responding to students' victimization and fear of crime
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009-02)Guest Editors' introduction to the special issue of Security Journal on the topic of "Insecurity in the Ivory Tower: Understanding and responding to students' victimization and fear of crime" -
Introduction: exercise capacities and adaptations of people with chronic disabilities--current research, future directions, and widespread applicability
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1993-04)This symposium addresses the unique physiological problems, current research, future needs, and widespread applicability for research involving people experiencing five major chronic disabilities within the United States: ... -
Introduction: Human trafficking-modern slavery
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2015)Slavery can be traced to ancient times. The Bible, Islam Koran, and Greek classics all have described slavery. The term slavery simply means that one person owns another human being like a piece of property. The human being ... -
Investigation of cremations and severely burned bodies
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1988-09)Among the most difficult cases for law enforcement and medicolegal investigators to investigate are those in which victims have been deliberately burned to cover up a crime, or those in which cremation has resulted from ... -
Isokinetic arm and leg strength of adults with Down syndrome: a comparative study
(W.B. Saunders, 1992-09)This study compared isokinetic arm (elbow flexion and extension) and leg (knee flexion and extension) strength of individuals with Down syndrome (DS), with mental retardation without DS (NDS), and sedentary young adults ... -
The Lockerbie disaster and other aircraft breakups in midair
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1990-06)This is a review of the experiences and activities of various specialty groups that constituted the organization developed to investigate the Lockerbie air disaster. Circumstances surrounding other aircraft midair breakup ... -
Mass deaths by gas or chemical poisoning. A historical perspective
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1991-06)This review chronicles the characteristics of deliberate and accidental mass poisonings that occurred in World Wars I and II, in Bhopal, and in other historical cases up to and including modern wars. It also considers ... -
Mentally retarded individuals--a population at risk?
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1991-05)When comparing the aging process of mentally retarded (MR) persons with the nondisabled population, researchers have established an earlier lower limit for the onset of old age for MR persons and a higher mortality rate. ... -
Nursing home queues and home health users
(Routledge, 1993)Home health market growth suggests the need for models explaining home health utilization. We have previously explained state-level Medicare home health visits with reference to nursing home markets. Here we introduce a ... -
The pathology and medicolegal aspects of sexual activity
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1991-03)The pathology of injury and its complications related to sexual activities has changed remarkably when compared with that of the past, which usually involved assaults or murders of female victims of varying ages, with ... -
Patient-to-physician communication on medication use
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Physical fitness and adults with mental retardation. An overview of current research and future directions
(Adis International, 1993-07)The deinstitutionalization movement of the past 25 years has focused on the placement of people with mental retardation into community-based settings. There is a need for exercise- and health-related professionals to ... -
Prevention and mitigation measures against phishing emails: A sequential schema model
(Springer Nature, 2021-09-28)Phishing emails have permeated our digital communication, taking advantage of vulnerabilities that the information technology system poses to users. Given the potential for further cybersecurity incidents, theft of personally ... -
The Ripper Project. Modern science solving mysteries of history
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1989-06)Modern scientific techniques may be applied to solve historical--even ancient--mysteries. Many such mysteries have been studied by forensic scientists, including anthropologists. One example is the recent examination of ... -
Signs of death as considered by Dr. B.M. Vance in a lecture fifty years ago
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1989-06)This work is based on the lecture given by Dr. Bernard M. Vance, then Assistant Chief Medical Examiner of New York, to the Homicide Squad Detectives of New York City on November 2, 1933, at the New York Police Academy. He ... -
A six-step model of potential victim's decisions to change location
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009-04)This paper presents a model of how concern about personal security (a shorthand term designed to include assessments of both fear of crime and perception of risk) influences potential victims’ decisions to change ...